Friday, April 28, 2006

Vendredi potpourri

Juan Cole is being pursued by a giant slug. Please send him some love today. Yes, I know, Professor Cole can take care of himself, and he carries plenty of salt just for occasions like these. But as he rightly points out:

And while we’re objecting to smear campaigns, Khalil Shikaki is also being targeted for a special Two Minutes Hate. This humble blog thinks it noteworthy when extremists call for the dismissal of politically moderate Palestinian scholars, and rejects extremists’ delusional claims that objecting to such calls amounts to anti-Semitism.

And while we’re talking about the AAUP, three cheers to Cary Nelson and Jane Buck for stepping up, getting arrested, and standing in solidarity with the NYU strike. Three jeers to NYU Minister of Deflection John Beckman for pretending that NYU isn’t the only private university in the nation to have de-recognized a legitimate graduate student union (see the penultimate paragraph of the article).